The Hall of Fire

I can't wait to see (if it indeed proves to be) a "reader's version" of Galadriel's doings and wanderings and motives with respect to the Second Age! And then to possibly disagree with some, much, most, or all of it ;) I love Lee's pencils, in any case! Sometimes better than certain of his...

[ someone wrote] " . . . and in a 1973 letter, wrote, “She was then of Amazon disposition and bound up her hair as a crown when taking part in athletic feats.” This is how she got her name, Galadriel, which means “maiden crowned with gleaming hair.” The part about "this is how she got her...

(or rather, the unnamed missing two wizards in LOTR, since they are never called Blue there, I don't think) That's correct. And as far as I'm aware (as of today), these two wizards are only ever called "blue/sea blue" in one text written in 1954 -- before JRRT wrote (in 1958, letter 211) ...

Temporary alliteration switch?

Seven Sons to five Feanor? Who can certainly say? Serindë herself?

That's Þerinde! said Fëanor fiercely!

Hi Eldy! Good to see you as well! And if I may add my opinion, if indeed Tolkien had come to believe that both Amros and Amros died on the ship, I prefer just the one. Something about the twin relationship being broken adds to the sorrow, I think. I mean, if we're gonna "go there" in a tal...

Thanks Voronwë . . . yes that reading (your reading above) makes more sense with the Maeglin commentary. It seems Tolkien was just narrowing down which son (in the marginal note found in the AAM section).

Galin? Oh yes I'm still Galin here!

The other burning question is what I was going to say in the post above from November 11, 2011, when I wrote at the end: "In fact," and then didn't add anything else. I think it's an excellent way to end a post. I also think (speculation alert) that The Legend of Amarthan (as no one calls...

Glorfindel's re-embodiment, by the way, seems like another clear example of Tolkien making some fairly large shifts to the mythology to make it fit with something he had published. Even if it was originally just a mistake (?). In a late text Tolkien basically suggested that he missed "reconsid...

True Eldo, thus in my personal Silmarillion: ros "foam spray" is Sindarin (not Beorian), and the other ros "red, brown, russet" allows the tale of Maedros and the two Amros brothers to be retained. I choose Maedros over Maedron as well, as I can't tell which is later in any case....

As Voronwë noted, suffering in a land can help form attachments: "Yet not all the Eldalie were willing to forsake the Hither Lands where they had long suffered and long dwelt; and some lingered many an age..." JRRT, conclusion to Quenta Silmarillion , The Lost Road And Other Writings They ...

Ahh... tricksy!

fea

Yëah, that's better!

I typed fëa and edited the e

But it didn't work!

So fe a!

I wondered why fëa automatically... and against my will... read fëa with a diaeresis. A Tolkienian diaeresis helps with a certain measure of confusion, and creates a certain measure of confusion.

Even in a thread about teëth! Or tëëth!

I'm a bit surprised that this thread exists... but I'll bite :cough: "Where their own fear, being designed to remain in Arda to its end, imposed long endurance on their bodies; for they were (as a fact of experience) in far greater control of them. (Author's note 5, p. 341)" They [the Elve...

I dunno.

I'm not sure why I even started this thread. I can't now remember.

But its popularity cannot be denied

On the other hand perhaps we have a scenario like... In working on The Road Goes Ever On [published 1967] Tolkien decided, upon close review of the already published lament namárië , that Galadriel had been banned for her role as a leader in the Rebellion, despite that earlier in The Lord of the Rin...

Drat. See below.

Oh right, yes I mean the person. I think the Nimloth reference is from The Fall of Doriath in the 1977 Silmarillion? Maybe. And now I'm going on memory [after looking only yesterday]! But if so, I'm guessing that might have come from a family tree somewhere. Wait, you went somewhere without your boo...

Not sure this question belongs here, or that I've not forgotten something obvious, but...

... I just checked MR, WJ, AR and the 1977 Silmarillion and every mention of Celeborn in QS in The Silmarillion seems to be editorial [he's not in QS at all as written by JRRT]. Is that right?

Heheh, I expected Nalindo ... but I still enjoyed it :D '... and thus said Littleheart the Gongwarden once upon a time: 'Gnome-speech,' said he, 'is enough for me — did not that one Earendel and Tuor and Bronweg my father (that mincingly ye miscall Voronwë) speak it and no other?' Yet he had to lear...